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History of modern Western subcultures

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1912:"The 2010s has seen the rise of subcultures that exist largely or entirely online, as divergent as vaporwave, ASMR, UK drill, and makeup tutorials, but all of them nesting within huge platforms like YouTube or Bandcamp. Something like audio blogs or DIY radio, podcasts have become the focus of new communities. And the slow collapse of a centralising and synchronised common culture has opened up the space for a profusion of micro-scenes, each running on its own timeline. In this flourishing post-geographical world of "local" cultures not tied to location, small is bountiful and significance doesn’t need to be universal to matter." 1968:
part of their retrospective series on the 2010s, Dazed magazine described the impact of technology on subcultures; "But also gave us more; it gave us dozens upon dozens of scenes and movements, only recognisable to the highly trained eye. And the rules became less rigid: you could dress one way, and listen to totally different music." Modern subcultures include e-girls, Koreaboos, art hoes, hypebeasts, Instagram baddies, soft boys, skaters, and revivals of 1970s-1990s subcultures such as hippies, goths, punks, and grunge.
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caused widespread unemployment and poverty, and a consequent malaise among adolescents that found its expression in urban youth gangs—the so-called "dead end kids." The dead end kid phenomenon was fictionalized on the stage and screen where it became a popular image with which people could identify.
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The entry of the United States into World War II was heralded by new legislation making zoot suits illegal due to the extra cloth required. In June 1943, white American servicemen stationed in Los Angeles rampaged through Mexican American neighborhoods, attacking young people wearing the suits and
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Throughout the mid to late 2010s, subcultures splintered and merged due to the widespread accessibility of the internet and social media platforms. Many 2010s subcultures drew from previously existing groups - the popular 'e-girl' subculture is seen as a modern spin on mid-2000s scene fashion. As
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The Sapeur cult promoted high standards of personal cleanliness, hygiene and smart dress, to a whole generation of youth across Zaire. When I say well-groomed, well-shaven, well-perfumed, it's a propriety that I am insisting on among the young. I don't care about their education, since education
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riding developed as a parallel lifestyle to wave riding. Both forms of board riding continued throughout the remainder of the century and into the next. From these two sports young people learned to provide their own social structure within which they could display skills and excellence.
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their counterparts in America would wear. For day-to-day wear there was a trend toward girls wearing slacks or jeans. At the time, the idea of girls wearing trousers and boys taking time over their hairstyles was socially shocking to many people.
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had always meant speech and conversation. The new meaning signified a change in the status of poetry from an elitist artform to a community sport. Rappers could attempt to outdo each other with their skillful rhymes. Rapping is also known as
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fled Europe following the outbreak of World War II. These artists arrived in the United States, where a subculture of surrealism and avant-garde experimentation developed in New York City, becoming the new centre of the art world.
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music, dancehall celebrations and sound system dances. Rude boys dressed in the latest fashions, and many were involved with gangs and violence. This subculture then spread to the United Kingdom and other countries.
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with pride, in the same way the freaks had done. Computer usage was still a very inaccessible secret world to most people in those days, but many people were interested in computers because of their appearance in
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At the beginning of the 1980s, some of the followers of punk rock became bored with it and wanted to make it more stylish and introduce elements of glam. By 1981, this trend resulted in the development of the
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subculture of the late 1960s. The skinheads were a harder, more working class version of mods who wore basic clean-cut clothing styles and favoured ska, rocksteady, soul and early reggae music.
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in the late 1950s, but was at its most popular during the early 1960s. Mods were obsessed with new fashions such as slim-cut suits; and music styles such as modern jazz, rhythm and blues, soul,
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was attempting to shock the world with their games and bizarre behavior. The Surrealists were at one and the same time a serious art movement and a parody of other art forms and
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and 121 other intellectuals who signed a statement asserting "the right to disobedience." The uprising brought the country to a standstill, and caused the government to call a
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surrounding the advent of teenager subcultures and a perceived rise in adolescent criminality led to several attempts to investigate and legislate youth behavior, such as the
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generation) consisted of individuals that had come to adulthood during the 2000s. Subcultures that emerged or became popular in the first decade of the 21st century included
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The Usenet and BBS subculture had developed a subculture which involved its own forms of etiquette and behaviour patterns both social and anti-social and the phenomena of
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and the normality which had existed before the two wars. At the same time, as a result of American post-war prosperity, a new identity emerged for youth subculture: the
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views. The consensus has generally tended to be that the modern urban environment offers all the bright lights and benefits of the modern world but often provides
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all had theories as to what was causing the increase to urban trouble, but it was later accepted that it developed in protest to the older generation's pro-
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came to power. Social nudism in the form of private clubs and campgrounds first appeared in the United States in the 1930s. In Canada, it first appeared in
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and others from the Dada movement. Based in several European countries, Surrealism was destined for trouble when the Nazis came to power. Subcultures and "
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Subcultures were often based on socializing and wild behaviour, but some of them were centred around politics. In the United States, these included the
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were used as alternatives to alcohol. When prohibition ended, the subculture of drink, drugs and jazz did not disappear, and neither did the gangsters.
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In the early part of the 20th century, subcultures were mostly informal groupings of like-minded individuals with the same views or lifestyle. The
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As American rock and roll arrived in the United Kingdom, a subculture grew around it. Some of the British post-war street youths hanging around
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Other punk rock followers took the genre and culture further underground, where it evolved into a faster, harder genre coined as
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In the 1970s, the hippie, mod and rocker subcultures were in a process of transformation, which temporarily took on the name of
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genre of hardcore punk, changed over the years becoming more mainstream, following the commercial success in early '2000s. The
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and would continue to diversify into the 90s. Rave culture thrived from the mid-80s to the end of the century and beyond.
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and treated poorly by the authorities in other states. Their refugee status was recorded in folk songs (including many by
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Other former punks searching for a new direction around 1979 eventually developed into the nucleus of what became the
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mass media with the power to create large subcultures by spreading the ideas of small subcultures across a wide area.
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were popular with drinkers. Thus, a drinking subculture grew in size and a crime subculture grew along with it. Other
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and subcultural styles. On the West Coast of the United States became popular a style of alternative rock known as
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In the Netherlands, two youth groups evolved in big cities like Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrecht. One group, the
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grew around the sport and the associated parties, clothes, speech patterns and music. During the same time-frame
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Jazz music, previously restricted to mainly poor African-Americans, broke out as the musical craze of the 1920s.
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genre and the hippie subculture. Early punks played aggressive, quick-paced three-chord rock and roll songs.
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Within the decay of the hippie subculture, some of the remaining branches of bikers progressively turned in
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became prominent in the 2010s. On March 20, 2014, Alexis Petridis, a journalist for the British newspaper
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or "Echo Boomers" (a reference to the fact that many of the parents of this generation had belonged to the
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craze. Coffee bars were a meeting place for all the types of youth and the coolest ones were said to be in
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scene arose in the 1990s, influenced by the 1960s mods, the 1970s/1980s mod revival, and other British
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subculture. Straight edge is a lifestyle that advocates abstinence in relation to tobacco, alcohol and
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at colleges and universities. Students who were fascinated by the possible uses of computers and other
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began from the mid-80s and became a flourishing subculture. The music embraced by this subculture was
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subculture from the late 1960s continued into the 1970s, and some skinheads became influenced by the
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and cowards, even suspected of desertion. Some artists managed to avoid the war by sitting it out in
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fans had mixed elements of jazz and blues into traditional cowboy and folk song styles to produce a
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etc. were popular from the 1930s to the 1950s. The genre also found its expression in the kid gang
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with succeeding aesthetics of horror and violence of late 1960s that influenced progressive rock (
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was disrupted by a massive police presence attempting to prevent the festival and break up the
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culture in a broader sense caught the same kind of energy as rap and so began the first of the
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music) were beginning to be more popular with a wider audience. A subculture of rural jazz and
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scene (despite the fact that the original 1960s skinheads were influenced by black culture).
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The German nudist movement gained prominence in the 1920s, but was suppressed during the
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in London was one example, providing a place where the diverse talents of people like
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movements also had its beginnings in the 1960s, evolving out of the Beat subculture.
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began figuring out ways to make technology more freely accessible. The international
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culture. There are various suggested candidates for which record might have been the
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of late 1970s and formed a culture on separatism and orthodoxy against mainstream.
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youths with little in reality. This theory and others were parodied in the musical
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could interact. Other pre-World War I subcultures were smaller social groupings of
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At some point, some in the hacker/computer subculture took on the derogatory word
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made an epic journey across America, which he would later describe in his novel,
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joined the movement. The emphasis on freedom of the individual influenced the
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After the second war, the zoot suit craze spread to France in the form of the
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etc. The computer subculture was also influenced by fictional subcultures in
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and elsewhere to move their entire families to survive. They were labeled as
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Teenage music and subculture was parodied in the 1957 play (and 1962 movie)
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The Existentialists had a profound influence upon subcultural development.
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escalated as crime gangs became organized. In the southern United States,
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was created as a medium of communication over the, still very primitive,
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The mod subculture began with a few cliques of trendy teenage boys in
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continued through the 1950s and into the 1960s under the guise of the
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was beginning to form in the 1960s, due to the increased usage of
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In American urban environments, a form of street culture using
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youths. Meanwhile, the intellectuals in France were forming an
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took part in several protest movements, including those for
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marches became a very successful British social phenomenon.
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From the 1950s onward society noticed an increase in street
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British youth divided into factions. There were the modern
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returned in another attempt at returning to the image of
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and others, taken by way of progressive rock bands like
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vibe to the subculture, regardless of the individual's
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was the intentional antithesis of the disco scene, the
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was the largest mass civil arrest in English history.
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Mods made a comeback in the late 1970s as a post-punk
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rather than run the risk of being toppled from power.
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often stripping them, in what has become known as the
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subculture which began to break the rules of social
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These skinheads became associated with the 850:style slicked hair. These youths were called 238:music and motor cars were at the centre of a 8: 1993:Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures 826:in urban areas and getting drawn into petty 2222:"The Most Notable Subcultures of the 2010s" 1489:always comes first of all from the family. 1234:of the 1960s mod culture, appealing to the 805:Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency 649:, published a story about it. In 1948, the 2319:Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga 2118:"Inside the clash of the teen subcultures" 878:kids, the rock and roll teenagers and the 18:History of subcultures in the 20th century 1551:. Along with the hardcore scene came the 79:Learn how and when to remove this message 2145:"Youth subcultures: Where Are They Now?" 1359:directed by Sam Peckinpah, and starring 1028:' journey across the United States with 724:Jazz culture was transformed, by way of 173:, Germany, in 1903. In Italy, a popular 2018: 1693:-reggae and the electropop bands like 1524:. New Romantics tended to be slightly 1059:, coinciding with the popular rise of 1592:subculture. In jazz jargon, the word 1055:culture originated in the ghettos of 580:songs (also known, in those days, as 475:). This style, collectively known as 7: 1942:. The Emo subculture, rooted in the 1517:, a group whose preferred music was 1316:) in the more obscure form of early 1093:scene originated in the 1960s, with 919:In the United States and Australia, 2143:Petridis, Alexis (March 20, 2014). 1922:Named in relation to Generation X, 1404:scene in the UK developed the band 947:), a youth subculture known as the 408:, and the film adaptation starring 313:. Surrealism had been developed by 2068:Emdin, Christopher (Nov 3, 2013). 2030:. Legacy Publishing. p. 263. 25: 1689:, filtered through the sounds of 1196:and a huge amount of interest in 854:. For a night out dancing at the 2379:Cante, Richard C. 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